The Makings of Modern Afghanistan

B. D. Hopkins

Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 15, 2008 - History - 258 pages

Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain’s imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian imperial rivalry known as the ‘Great Game’.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• The Power of Colonial Knowledge: 11
• The Myth of the Great Game: 34

About the author

B. D. HOPKINS  is currently research fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge, UK. He has also been a Fellow in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. His research and teaching interests include South Asian history, British imperialism, the history of Afghanistan and the Northwest Frontier.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Makings of Modern Afghanistan; Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
• Author: B. D. Hopkins
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jul 10, 2009
• ISBN: 0230554210, 9780230554214
• Length: 258 pages
• Subjects: History / Asia / Central Asia; History / Middle East / General; History / Modern / 19th Century